A tragedy led Cubbedge to his role as a pastor. "I lost two brothers in one day," he explains. "That was my Damascus Day."

Cubbedge says he got a "burning passion to preach about three years ago." He asked God to allow him to realize his passion by age 50.

"He gave it to me 12 months earlier."

Cubbedge discovered Moultrie Church while waiting at a train crossing. He saw Katherine and Lamar Tindell, owners of the church property, at work cleaning the land.

He told the Tindells that he was looking for a church and to let him know if the property became available.

Some time later "Lamar called and said 'Barry, you've got your church,' " Cubbedge said.

Thus a partnership was formed between Cubbedge and the Tindells.

"It's not a contract," Cub-bedge said, it's a "partnership."

A coat of paint isn't the only thing the little church is getting. New carpet is being installed and the interior is getting further finishing touches, to complement the original pulpit which is the interior focal point.

The timber for the historic structure was brought from South Carolina, says Tindell, and the church was supposed to be constructed elsewhere on the property. A cemetery with some graves dating the late 1800s is also located there.

"But they dropped the lumber here," Tindell explains of the church's location, and the people who were building the church said they'd build it right on that spot.